offer raze they appeared on his front_porch. four pine nuts, seven sunflower seeds, and a single kernel of dried corn. a blessing. a curse. a simple gesture with kindness or cruelty sewn into its skin. cyanide to murder his pride. or an unpinned grenade meant to blow his friends to bits. he knew who'd left them there. absent from the equation was the why of it all. there was no note. no spoken explanation. after mulling it over, he brushed the interlopers into the grass and left the birds to sort out whatever intentions they might have held before they became pellets of excreta. 221103 what's it to you? who go blather from